With hotter and drier weather plaguing New Mexico, water managers are warning that more stretches of one of North America’s longest rivers will be drying up in the coming days.
Sand and gravel bars in the Rio Grande expand in the river's reach through central New Mexico as monsoon clouds form north of Bernalillo, N.M., on Thursday, July 21, 2022. – Triple digit temperatures and a fickle monsoon season have combined with decades of persistent drought to put one of North America's longest rivers in its most precarious situation yet.
The threat of having the river dry this far north has been present the last few summers due to ongoing drought, officials with the Bureau of Reclamation and one of the largest irrigation districts on the river said. But, this could be the year that residents in New Mexico's most populated region get to witness the effects of climate change on a grander scale.It’s not uncommon to have parts of the Rio Grande go dry in its more southern reaches, but not in Albuquerque.
The Bureau of Reclamation will be releasing what little supplemental water it has left in upstream reservoirs along the Rio Grande. Over the last 20 years, the agency has leased about 700,000 acre-feet — or 228 billion gallons — of water to supplement flows through the middle Rio Grande for endangered and threatened species.Biologists aren’t sure this latest release will be enough to make a difference for the endangered minnow.
Dean said scooping up minnows in Albuquerque will be new territory for the crew as they have never had to do such work that far north. “There’s a lot of infrastructure on this river that was built for a purpose and that was during a period of time when water was plentiful," he said."I’m hoping that’s the silver lining that comes out of this, that people start re-envisioning the way we can use that existing infrastructure.”
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